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Samba is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to
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access to a server's filespace and printers via the SMB (Server
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Message Block) protocol.
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In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to
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Unix disks and printers from Lan Manager clients, Windows for
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Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows NT clients, Linux clients and OS/2
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clients. There is also a generic Unix client program supplied as part
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of the suite which allows Unix users to use an ftp-like interface to
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access filespace and printers on any other SMB servers. This gives the
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capability for these operating systems to behave much like a LAN
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Server or Windows NT Server machine, only with added functionality and
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flexibility designed to make life easier for administrators.
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This package tracks the Samba-2.0.x releases that include support for
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the "share modes" directive that was removed in Samba-2.2.x. The
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"share modes" directive is needed to support certain legacy MS-DOS
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applications.
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